Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although few Americans are aware of it, the world has just suffered a major crop disaster. But United Nations officials who are figuring how to feed Europe's starving millions and how to stretch the world's limited supply of shipping know it well. The Southern Hemisphere has had a five-months' drought and its two chief food-producing countries, Argentina and Australia, are hardest...
...Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
...Strasbourg without much delay. German industrial towns of the west bank (Mainz, Worms, Ludwigshafen) would be put out of action, and some on or near the east bank (Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe) would be brought under artillery fire. And the Nazis would go cross-eyed watching the whole 800-mile stretch of the Rhine from Switzerland to The Netherlands...
Grown suddenly alarmed, the German radio called Zhukov's attack "murderous." Soviet formations, in actions reminiscent of Belleau Wood, squeezed the Germans from the Klützer forest southeast of the city. They converged on Altdamm, four miles east of the city. Along a six-mile stretch the Russians stood looking across the mile-wide river marshes at the smoking shambles of Stettin...
Hirsch, alias The Professor. Even Tom Ryan, the cherub-faced sexton, had another name-George Lanoway. He had been arrested 19 times, had gone to Sing Sing for a five-year stretch...